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The houdini solution9/28/2023 ![]() ![]() SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS (ACADEMY PLAQUES) With more than twenty years of continual innovation, Houdini has delivered the power of procedural methods to visual effects artists, making it the industry standard for bringing natural phenomena, destruction and other digital effects to the screen. This work allowed, for the first time, efficient rendering of volumetric effects such as smoke and clouds in a micro-polygon imaging pipeline. Mark’s work on Houdini, also earned a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in February 2012. At the 84th Oscars, SideFX’ Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt were awarded for their invention and integration of micro-voxels in the Mantra renderer. To Mark Elendt and SideFX Software for the creation and development of the Houdini visual effects and animation system. It is a remarkable honor and it clearly demonstrates just how significant Houdini is to all of film making, and not just visual effects. Moreover, it is being done in the same year as the Academy Plaque is also being presented to the Houdini team. In fact, for such a technical achievement, this is only the 50th time one has ever been awarded. To put this honor in perspective, the Oscar Statuette is not even given out yearly. Happy Birthday Mark! When Mark tried to take a 360 from the stage – he had his fingers over the lens! But then Mark and the whole SideFX team were being honored for their work BEHIND the camera. As a highlight of the 2017/18 Sci-tech awards, Mark and the company got their own coveted Oscar golden statuette.Īs the big Arts Oscars are this weekend in LA and today (Monday) is Mark Elendt’s birthday, we want to join in congratulating him and the whole SideFX team for their outstanding work with Houdini. ![]() The first award is an Academy Plaque for four members of the Houdini team, and if that was not enough, the entire company got its own actual Oscar along with Mark Elendt, who was honoured for the fourth time at the Sci-techs. SideFX and its Houdini team have been heavily honored by the Academy in this year’s Sci-Tech Academy Awards. ![]()
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